Root users need good filemanagers and editors too

I know when I am logged in as root. (I don't want or need such a windowism) I still would like to use thunar. (it looks great and loads fast, and multifile rename and regex. Congratulations!)

but.... That darn red warning is irratateing. I need to disable, reduce the intensity or have it fade off but I can't find the configuration for it in thunar or mousepad. I continue my search for the config files but was hoping you can point me to it.

Re: Root users need good filemanagers and editors too

Or you could just comment lines 719-741 in thunar-window.c and recompile thunar. I mean this should realy be a configure option, I don't have internet at home and i want to use my system as root user... I realy don't like when someone wants to force me to something... or at least an option to turn this warning off...

Re: Root users need good filemanagers and editors too

There will be no option to turn those warnings off, no discussion about that. If you're a desktop user you shouldn't be logged in as root... Second point: we're not forcing you to not be logged in as user, we just advising you it's not smart to do this (and you can't deny we're wrong). A more forcing piece of code would be:

if (geteuid () == 0)
{
g_error (_("You are not allowed to run this application as root!"));
gtk_main_quit ();
}

So in other words: warning will not me removed since it's useful for 99% of the users and since we encourage security there will be no option to disable it. The only option to remove it will be a patch like this one: thunar-no-root-warning.patch

Re: Root users need good filemanagers and editors too

"There will be no option to turn those warnings off, no discussion about that. If you're a desktop user you shouldn't be logged in as root... "

what happened to "Linux is about choice." ??? (why do you think I use xfce instead of gnome?)

5 or 10 years ago, I might actually have agreed with you, but Things do move forward and to say root administration must be done without a desktop is childish. I am both a root user AND a desktop user and there are administration tools that need a desktop.

Thanks for the line numbers, I will take a few minutes and fix that now. I actually have more a problem with the wasted line and the high contrast bothering my eyes. :-(

Maybe to classify as a warning it should fade away after 10-20 seconds.